Soap Creek Valley · Place

McDonald Forest

Everything the Soap Creek narrators said about McDonald Forest: 56 transcript mentions across 9 records, grouped by who was speaking.

forest Coordinate: inferred

Also printed as: McDonald-Dunn

Index references (printed indexes): 17
Transcript mentions: 56

These two numbers count different things and rarely match. The first is how often the back-of-book indexes the books themselves print point at this place; an indexer chose those. The second is how often the name occurs in the transcript text, counted by machine. More on the difference.

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Provenance

Coordinates: 44.62576, -123.28302
How they were found: coordinate placed from the narrators’ description
How far to trust it: inferred
Built from: The printed transcripts and back-of-book indexes of the fifteen monographs
Accessioned: From Bob Zybach’s upload, 23 August 2026

Who speaks of it

Bessie Murphy in #11 Bessie Murphy p. 10, p. 11
Charlie Olson and Mrs. Olson in #7 Charlie Olson p. 96, p. 100, p. 151
Donald M. Dickey and Maxine Dickey in #3 Donald Dickey p. 47, p. 49
Marvin Rowley in #15 Marvin Rowley p. 12, p. 15, p. 20, p. 21, p. 28, p. 31, p. 34, p. 36, p. 38, p. 39, p. 44, p. 46, p. 48, p. 49, p. 52, p. 58, p. 68, p. 98, p. 99, p. 100, p. 101, p. 102, p. 105, p. 120
Neil Elton Vanderburg in #8 Neil Vanderburg p. 95
Paul M. Dunn in #2 Paul M. Dunn p. 9, p. 23, p. 24, p. 41, p. 43, p. 45
Wanda Marcks Cook, Roy Cook, and Evelyn Weigel in #12 Wanda Marcks Cook p. 86
William A. Davies in #13 WILLIAM A. DAVIES p. 22, p. 23, p. 37, p. 38, p. 42, p. 48, p. 50, p. 55, p. 67, p. 70, p. 71
Zybach 1999 thesis written by Bob Zybach — Zybach 1999 thesis p. 14, p. 109, p. 113, p. 123, p. 227, p. 228

In their words

Quoted character for character from the printed page, with the page it is on.

Rowley has also heard similar stones about these activities at this location, and at several other sites in McDonald Forest.

Wanda Marcks Cook, Roy Cook, and Evelyn Weigel, #12 Wanda Marcks Cook , p. 88

Do you know of any early sawmills that were located in Paul Dunn - McDonald Forest?

William A. Davies, #13 WILLIAM A. DAVIES , p. 16

Dated statements about this place

1850s — The surveyors of the 1850s described McDonald Forest area as open savanna oak forest for the most part. Marvin Rowley · source · 1845–1859
1890s — 1, Box 327B); it probably operated during the 1890's. Zybach (editorial) · source · 1860–1890
1927 — During the period of 1927 through 1939, which was the end of the period of Dean Peavy's activities as Dean, a total of 4,800 acres was acquired, all in the McDonald Forest area and very accessible to the School Paul M. Dunn · source · 1921–1940
1930/1932 — McDonald, widow of a prominent San Francisco lumberman, donated the first of many gifts for additional purchases, and in 1932 the school forest was officially named McDonald Forest. Zybach (editorial) · source · 1921–1940
1946 — Like I said, back when I came onto the scene in 1946, the professors were inclined to call this, McDonald Forest, the land that nobody else wanted, and it’s just junk, you know? Marvin Rowley · source · 1941–1950
1956 — Lessons learned from this work were tried on McDonald Forest beginning in 1956. Marvin Rowley · source · 1951–1970
1980s — During the 1980s, we had a group of students who called their group the Concerned Students of McDonald Forest. Marvin Rowley · source · 1971–1995

How to cite this item

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As printed: The Zybach Collection, Soap Creek Valley series: McDonald Forest (place record).
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